Meeting Time: April 20, 2021 at 5:30pm MST
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PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE CITY MANAGER'S TRIAL BUDGET

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    Jeremiah Beltran over 3 years ago

    I am in support of funding the park on 55th ave and Samantha Way. This has been passed over for more than a decade and growing families in the community would benefit greatly from an area of common community to share time together. Please follow through on this project and build a park our communities families, friends, and children can finally enjoy.

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    Hana Hehman over 3 years ago

    I am against the 75 new civilian positions for Phoenix police. PPD says it’s necessary to increase transparency, but every attempt by police to increase transparency and training have failed. We need access to public records from police, but continuing to add more people to a rotten system isn’t going to fix anything. Police records need to be handled by the City Clerk’s office.

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    Rista Toomer over 3 years ago

    Support a crisis assistance program that meets the NOCAP demands.

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    Hali Hartsock over 3 years ago

    Please support a crisis assistance program that meets the NOCAP demands. No more money to Phoenix Police!

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    Anita Nath over 3 years ago

    No 75 new civilian positions for PPD. Covid relief for the people, not police. Move $10 million from the PPD “crime suppression squad”. Move $15 million from PD to pay for a new crisis response program that keeps people safe from PPD.

    We demand funding for:
    Free transportation and bus only lanes
    Rehabilitation services & center in West Phoenix
    Low barrier shelter and affordable housing
    Reparations
    Green New Deal

    Reject this budget until the process for MOU negotiations become fully public.

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    Anna Mueller over 3 years ago

    The city of Phoenix should invest in NOCAP – please fund crisis assistance programs that bring the appropriate attention to those struggling with mental health. I believe this would alleviate the police workload while simultaneously decreasing unnecessary aggression and violence – noncriminal/nonviolent cases require behavioral experts.

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    Kara Roschi over 3 years ago

    While I support the inclusions for Arts & Culture, Equity & Inclusion, and Heat Response & Mitigation, I cannot in good faith support a budget that increases funds for an outmoded, bloated, inefficient and abusive policing system—with a disgraceful monopoly on our tax dollars. Our communities are better served through a thoughtful multiplicity of targeted services, like crisis responses uncoupled from the criminal system (NOCAP), funded through a continuing $20m offset from the police budget.

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    Trystan Youngjohn over 3 years ago

    The budget for the PPD is ridiculous, and is better off put directly back into the community in the forms of improved public transportation, rehabilitation services, and public housing. Move $10 million from the PPD’s “crime suppression squad” and put it toward real community needs instead. Move an additional $15 million from police to pay for new crisis response program. One that ACTUALLY serves this community.
    Lastly, reject this budget until the process for MOU negotiations is fully public.

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    dianne post over 3 years ago

    For 40 years we have worked to get a citizens oversight commission to police the police. Still we are told we need more community input, it's not needed, they can police themselves, no one understands - enough already. We are the only large city without a citizens commission. It's obvious they cannot police themselves. No raise for police, make them pay for all lawsuits out of their own pension fund, make every officer carry malpractice insurance. We are done.

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    kevin pitts over 3 years ago

    Phoenix needs to be a leading-edge city and move at least $10 million to a crisis response team and scale back the scope of police work in the city. It is the only way forward.

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    Rebecca Denis over 3 years ago

    NO MORE MONEY TO PHOENIX POLICE!
    No to 75 new civilian positions for Phoenix police
    Move $10 million from the phx police “crime suppression squad”
    COVID relief for the people, not police
    $15 million from police to pay for new crisis response program
    Our communities demand funding for:
    Free transportation
    Rehabilitation services and a center in West Phoenix
    Low barrier shelter/ housing support
    I reject this budget until the process for MOU negotiations becomes fully public

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    Jisoo Kim over 3 years ago

    PPD budget is, as always, unjustifiably large. NO 75 new civilian positions for PPD. Move $10 million from the PD “crime suppression squad”. Move $15 million from PD to adequately pay for a new crisis response program that keeps people safe from PD.

    We demand funding for:
    Rehabilitation services & center in West Phoenix
    Low barrier shelter/housing support
    Reparations
    Green New Deal

    REJECT this budget til the process for MOU negotiations become fully public.

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    Alexa Aguilar over 3 years ago

    Stop investing tax money into police. We need to invest in free transportation for youth, parents, rehab, and housing/shelter support. We need to relocate money to places that will actually have a positive impact in our communities.

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    Marti Winkler over 3 years ago

    I want the City of Phoenix to fund the Neighborhood Organized Crisis Assistance Program to establish an official first responder department separate from the police department for noncriminal and nonviolent dispatches.

    Please support a crisis assistance program that meets the NOCAP demands.

    Stop Phoenix Police from killing and assaulting unarmed people over minor situations, police escalation and comply or die like Officer Jason Gillespie almost killing me over calling the police for help.

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    Maria Hase over 3 years ago

    I support the Offices of Arts and Culture, Equity and Inclusion, and Heat Response and Mitigation. They will attract business and make Phoenix a more vibrant, welcoming, safe community. I fully support the Shade and Tree Master Plan and the Cool Corridors Program. 2,000 people died from heat exposure in Arizona from 2009-2019. Over 200 people died last year from heat exposure - twice that of previous years. This is an economic issue for Phoenix, and a life and death issue for residents.

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    Jennifer Mullins over 3 years ago

    Please support a crisis assistance program that meets the NOCAP demands. Money should not go to more policing but intervention by those who are most affected by the pandemic. We need more mental health intervention, housing and Healthcare assistance and support for education.

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    Liliana Velazquez over 3 years ago

    Community must have a direct say in the $400 million in covid relief money coming to phx. This money needs to fund the people and resources that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Using covid funds for police bonuses or to grow the police budget harms our collective recovery by denying resources to those most impacted. This money needs to be used for things like housing assistance, public transportation, healthcare, vaccine distribution, income support, and childcare assistance.

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    Rachael DeCindis over 3 years ago

    I oppose

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    Dlorah Conover over 3 years ago

    I support a fully funded independent accountable nonviolent first responder program. Its goal is to support people in times of crisis without the use of the criminal legal system. The program will respond to calls that currently go to the Phoenix Police Department. It makes sense that the money come from the PPD budget. I support the Neighborhood-Organized Crisis Assistance Program (NOCAP) coalition!

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    Monlau Kwok over 3 years ago

    The community must have a direct say in the $400 million in covid relief money coming to phx. This money needs to fund the people and resources that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Using covid funds for police bonuses or to grow the police budget harms our collective recovery by denying resources to those most impacted. This money needs to be used for things like housing assistance, public transportation, healthcare, vaccine distribution, income support, and childcare assistance.